I’m building a rocking chair for my daughter and can’t figure out how to round over the seat front. I hollowed out the seat and the front edge and am looking for a way to do this consistently, I don’t mind doing it by hand with a rasp but wanted to make sure there isn’t an easier way to get a clean, consistent edge. Any suggestions?

I run into the same problem with guitar bodies, where the forearm and belly cuts are in the body. The router just cannot follow. I usually hand rasp then hand sand in the roundover, but you have to really watch it to make sure it is accurate all the way across. I usually let a light reflection off the wood help me.

I was thinking of tilting the table on my spindle sander and sanding a 45 then finishing with a sanding block or rasp. I was curious how others deal with this type of edge. I am also going to do this to the arms as they have compound edges as well. Thanks!

Thanks mds! This is the first rocker I’ve built, I measured my wife to get the dimensions, luckily it turned out very comfy! I have a near endless supply of pine 1X12X48” pine boards so I thought I’d build it in that. The pine was so soft that I decided to laminate all the parts out of 3/16” strips, made forms for each part and glued/clamped them. There’s about 180 strips in this thing. It’s far stronger. I’m going to saturate the surface with some wood hardener to make it more durable. Thanks again!